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  • Note 3: Innocent III, Epistolae Comiti Altissiodorensi, Regi Francorum, Archiepiscopo Senonensi, and Episcopo Altissiodorensi, PL 215.160 — 68, at 161: "domum ejus in coemeterium convertere voluisti, dum in ea corpus cujusdam triduanum forsan et foetidum in ejus fecisti opprobrium tumulari". back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Quem ego depereo juvenis mihi pulcherimus videtur; sed forsan amore percita de amore non recte judico.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ne quis interim viris bonis detractum quid putet, quos habet ecclesia Anglicana quamplurimos, eggregie doctos, illustres, intactae famae, homines, et plures forsan quam quaevis Europae provincia; ne quis a florentisimis

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If it be not point blank to his humour, his method, his conceit, [112] si quid, forsan omissum, quod is animo conceperit, si quae dictio, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I am of Catullus 'opinion, and make the same apology in mine own behalf; Hoc etiam quod scribo, pendet plerumque ex aliorum sententia et auctoritate; nec ipse forsan insanio, sed insanientes sequor.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aristotelismo innutritae, et minutis speculationibus assuetae, secus forsan, &c. Though they seem close to us, they are infinitely distant, and so per consequens, there are infinite habitable worlds: what hinders?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quales statuae (quod ait [2100] ille) quae sacris in aedibus columnis imponuntur, velut oneri cedentes videntur, ac si insudarent, quum revera sensu sint carentes, et nihil saxeam adjuvent firmitatem: atlantes videri volunt, quum sint statuae lapideae, umbratiles revera homunciones, fungi, forsan et bardi, nihil a saxo differentes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Melancholia Erotica vel quae cum amore est, duplex est: prima quae ab aliis forsan non meretur nomen melancholiae, est affectio eorum quae pro objecto proponunt Deum et ideo nihil aliud curant aut cogitant quam Deum, jejunia, vigilias: altera ob mulieres.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • If you marry a maid, it is uncertain how she proves, Haec forsan veniet non satis apta tibi.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Paradisus terrestris dicitur locus spaciosus ad amplitudinem quasi quinque Insularum nostrarum, Angliæ, Normanniæ, Hiberniæ, Scotiæ, et Noruegiæ, aut forsan satis plurium.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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